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Old 09-01-2014, 06:37 PM
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Stereophonic Newcomb

Here's a RARE find I just found. A Stereophonic Newcomb.
Not sure of how old it is. I couldn't find ANY info on the web.
The model is RTS-40
Does anyone recall these?
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Old 09-01-2014, 07:11 PM
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Yes! That's the same one I spoke of my Jr. High School having in '69!
It sounded quite good as I recall.
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Old 09-01-2014, 07:29 PM
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Probably late '60's. Open it and look for date codes on the motor, electrolytic capacitors, and transistors. Stereo institutional record players are not nearly as common as the mono units; but, they are out there and are usually decent quality units. The music room at my middle school had a stereo califone record player.
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Old 09-30-2014, 05:26 PM
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I'd replace the electrolytic caps in the amplifier, automatically.

We had 2 of these units at my high school. One was just like this one. The other one was full of tubes. Thats the one I preferred.

These are good machines. If it was mine, I'd keep it.
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Old 09-30-2014, 07:13 PM
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Ain't had a chance to get to Knoxville to take that Newcomb AM-FM "Portable" radio to Terry's yet.. Even with the lousy caps, & the "Thunderstorm" noise, I can tell its a CRACKERJACK performer, or WILL be.. I'm thinkin' maybe even rivalling the R-389..
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On AM DX, my money is that the Newcomb will be pretty competitive with anything.
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